The Global Cooling

[Perd Hapley]

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/07/02/are-scientists-preparing-for-a-flipflop-back-to-global-cooling-predictions/


I want to hear more about this. Whatever we're doing to cool the globe, let's do more of it. Christmas year-round, baby!

[French G.]

Might be your lucky century. The scientists who came up with an algorithm that neatly fits the sun's past activity say it is going to get cool.

[Triphammer]

Do we start taxing companies that don't produce enough CO2? Reverse carbon credits, maybe?

[RoadKingLarry]

DAMMIT!
I've done my part. I want my global warming!
I want palm trees in Oklahoma.

[MechAg94]

With all the Sky Is Falling panic over the last 20 years from global warming, I wonder how many of these people have any credibility left.  I will wait and see what government action they start proposing.

[Kingcreek]

4th of July in the Midwest is usually hotter than a popcorn fart. Wife and I took a bicycle ride this morning in long sleeves. Slept with the windows open and a blanket on last night. We haven't used air conditioning for almost a week.

[Perd Hapley]

In the last week or two of June, we had a long stretch of days in the high 90s, and got almost to 100. That would be normal for July/August, but seemed a little odd for June. So far, July has been torrential down-pours, with temperatures getting down into the 70s, and even the 60s at night.

I'll take a rainy Independence Day over a hot one, anytime.

[Ben]

In the last week or two of June, we had a long stretch of days in the high 90s, and got almost to 100. That would be normal for July/August, but seemed a little odd for June. So far, July has been torrential down-pours, with temperatures getting down into the 70s, and even the 60s at night.

I'll take a rainy Independence Day over a hot one, anytime.

We had around two weeks of 100+ here. It's cooling to the mid-low 90s this week. In general we don't have it as bad in these parts as you guys back East do humidity-wise. Except for me, because the corn is getting irrigated and it basically creates a 10" deep swamp that surrounds the house. After heating up all day, the water can easily create a localized heat index of 110+ by five or six o'clock. Can't wait till September, when the dang stuff gets cut down.

Not climate related of course. :)

[MechAg94]

But it is really really cold somewhere else so it all averages out.   

[Kingcreek]

Which of our sinful modern world activities are responsible for changing the ocean currents?

[230RN]

Might be your lucky century. The scientists who came up with an algorithm that neatly fits the sun's past activity say it is going to get cool.

What algorithm?  All you have to do is look at a graph of proxy temperatures over the last half-million years.  It's a "noisy" graph, but shows quite a few major regular cycles.

The "noise" is what fooled all those scientists into thinking it's a long-term warming, with accurate direct temperature samples taken only over a couple of hundred years.

Looking at the regular long-term cycles themselves, it looks like we're probably going (slooowly) into one of the global cooling events despite the usual short-term blips and bumps.  This has been obvious for a long time, and I remember "popular" articles predicting a new ice age a-coming back in the '50s and '60s.  (Before "scientists" started pandering to "politically-correct meteorology.")

Gee, maybe it's a good thing that we're pumping greenhouse gases into the air, huh?

Terry, 230RN